About Scaling

If you subscribe to Oracle Analytics Cloud through Universal Credits and your service performs poorly, you can scale up the number of Oracle Compute Units (OCPUs) allocated to the service to improve performance. To save costs or if your workload is reduced, you might scale down. Similarly, if you set up Oracle Analytics Cloud to support a specific number of users and your user requirements change, you can scale the number of users up or down.

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You can scale your Oracle Analytics Cloud environment up and down within the OCPU range (or user range) available to your service (see table) and within the overall service limit for your tenancy (see Service Limits). Users don't experience any downtime when you scale a service up or down; the service stays up and running. Users might experience a reduction in performance for about 60 minutes during scale operations.

• Scale the Number of OCPUs

  With Universal Credits, you can either scale between 1 and 8 OCPUs or between 10 and 12 OCPUs. If you want to scale across these ranges (for example, scale up from 8 to 12 OCPUs or scale down from 12 to 6 OCPUs), you must create a service instance with the OCPUs that you want and migrate your content to the new service. See Migrate Oracle Analytics Cloud Using Snapshots.

  Current OCPUs	OCPU Range	Scale Up within Range?	Scale Down within Range?
  		(Incremental + increase)	(Incremental - decrease)
  1 (non-production)	1 - 8	Yes (+1, +3, +5, +7)	No (minimum for this range)
  2	1 - 8	Yes (+2, +4, +6)	Yes (-1)
  4	1 - 8	Yes (+2, +4)	Yes (-2, -3)
  6	1 - 8	Yes (+2)	Yes (-2, -4, -5)
  8	1 - 8	No (maximum for this range)	Yes (-2, -4, -6, -7)
  10	10 - 12	Yes (+2)	No (minimum for this range)
  12	10 - 12	No (maximum for this range)	Yes (-2)
  16	16	No	No
  24	24	No	No
  36	36	No	No
  52	52	No	No

• Scale the Number of Users

  With Universal Credits, you can size your service based on the number of users you expect to use Oracle Analytics Cloud. If your user requirements increase or decrease, you can scale within specific user ranges.

  Minimum Users	Maximum Users
  10	400
  401	600
  601	900
  901	1400
  1401	2200
  2201	3000

  For example, if you currently subscribe with 200 users, you can increase to 400 or decrease to 10. If you want to scale across these ranges (for example, scale up from 300 to 500 or scale down from 500 to 300), you must create a service instance with the number of users that you want and migrate your content to the new service.